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UNL law faculty asks Nebraska federal delegation to uphold rule of law

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UNL law faculty asks Nebraska federal delegation to uphold rule of law

• Chris Dunker | Lincoln Journal Star
• May 2, 2025
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Faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law are urging the state’s federal delegation to defend the rule of law, writing that several Trump administration actions have undermined the country’s legal and political systems.

More than 30 current and former faculty, representing positions across the political spectrum, signed a letter in their personal capacities, outlining their concerns the rule of law in the U.S. is in peril. They sent it to Nebraska Sens. Deb Fischer (from left) and Pete Ricketts, as well as Reps. Adrian Smith, Mike Flood and Don Bacon.

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Photos: Historic UNL buildings

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Architectural Hall, seen here in July 1987 following a $4.38 million renovation, is the university's oldest building. It originally housed UNL's library and art gallery and served as headquarters for the Nebraska State Historical Society.

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Louise Pound Hall previously housed the College of Business Administration. It opened in 1919 and was renovated in 2018.

Julie Koch

The Temple Building, at 12th and R streets, is home to the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. It was completed in 1908 and renovated in the 1970s.

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Morrill Hall is home to the State Museum of Natural History on the UNL City Campus. 

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Pound (left) and Cather dormitories were known as the Twin Towers when they opened in 1963. Closed in recent years, the dorms were imploded in 2017.

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When the new Teachers’ College Building was constructed at the very eastern edge of the University of Nebraska it also contained the old Temple High School, whose name was then changed to Teachers’ High School. Today the building is extant and connected to the Administration Building to its south across the street west from the Student Union.

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The extant physics building on the University of Nebraska campus opened in 1906 and was dedicated to Professor DeWitt Brace though he died the year before it opened.

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The original cast-iron “Physical Laboratory” sign at Brace Hall was uncovered by construction crews and incorporated into the renovation design by architects Leo A Daly.

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The the old University of Nebraska astronomical observatory is shown about 1910 when it was located just west of today’s physics building on the UNL campus; it was allowed $500 for construction by the Board of Regents. A few years later, a new observatory was built south of Brace Laboratory, first proposed to cost $12,500 and later estimated to be double that, still far from a vast amount.

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Construction on Architecture Hall, originally built as a library for $110,000, started in 1892. It was renovated for $4.3 million in the mid-1980s.

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Construction underway in January 1986 renovating and linking UNL's former law building (left) and Architectural Hall.

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UNL demolish the Cather and Pound residence halls in 2017.

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Banners tream down through the atrium gathering place which unites UNL's Architecture Hall and Architecture Hall West, the former law college building, in this November 1987 photo.

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